Far too often I get so stuck into the work week that I forget to monitor the weather for the weekend when I should be going off to play on my dive kayaks — an activity which is somewhat weather dependent. Luckily, help is at hand in the form of the ScraperWiki email alert system. […]
Knight Foundation finance ScraperWiki for journalism
ScraperWiki is the place to work together on data, and it is particularly useful for journalism. We are therefore very pleased to announce that ScraperWiki has won the Knight News Challenge! The Knight Foundation are spending $280,000 over 2 years for us to improve ScraperWiki as a platform for journalists, and to run events to bring together journalists […]
Be alert! Your scrapers need alerts
It’s important to know when your scrapers have stopped working, so you can fix them. And if someone else makes a change to one of your scrapers, you need to know, so you can check it’s OK and thank them. Over the next day or two, if you have made or contributed to a scraper […]